Author: Huber, Anna Lee, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F HUBER Format: Books Summary: "April,1912: It's the perfect finale to a Grand Tour of Europe--sailing home on the largest, most luxurious ocean liner ever built. For the Fortune sisters, the voyage offers a chance to reflect on the treasures of the past they've seen--magnificent castles and museums in Italy and France, the ruins of Greece and the Middle East--and contemplate the futures that await them. For Alice, there's foreboding mixed with her excitement. A fortune teller in Egypt gave her a dire warning about traveling at sea. And the freedom she has enjoyed on her travels contrasts with her fiancé's plans for her return--a cossetted existence she's no longer sure she wants. Flora is also returning to a fiancé, a well-to-do banker of whom her parents heartily approve, as befits their most dutiful daughter. Yet the closer the wedding looms, the less sure Flora feels. Another man--charming, exasperating, completely unsuitable--occupies her thoughts, daring her to follow her own desires rather than settling for the wishes of others. Youngest sister Mabel knows her parents arranged this Grand Tour to separate her from a jazz musician. But the secret truth is that Mabel has little interest in marrying at all, preferring to explore ideas of suffrage and reform--even if it forces a rift with her family.Each sister grapples with the choices before her as the grand vessel glides through the Atlantic waters. Until, on an infamous night, fate intervenes, forever altering their lives . . ." --
Author: King, A. S. (Amy Sarig), 1970- Published: 2024 Call Number: Y KING Format: Books Summary: Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Jane's mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she's at home. And then there's weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane, this all seems normal until she suddenly gains access to the files for a lifetime of security-camera videos--her lifetime.
Author: Morgan, Sarah (Romance fiction writer), author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F MORGAN Format: Books Summary: To the outside world, Imogen is a marketing dynamo. Her colleagues don't know that while her high-achieving professional image is real, the happy childhood stories she spins are as fake as her pretend enthusiasm for Christmas. Working 24/7 has always been her solution to surviving the festive season--until burnout leads to a catastrophic blunder. "To the outside world, Imogen is a marketing dynamo. Her colleagues don't know that while her high-achieving professional image is real, the happy childhood stories she spins are as fake as her pretend enthusiasm for Christmas. Working 24/7 has always been her solution to surviving the festive season--until burnout leads to a catastrophic blunder. Suddenly, Imogen is handed a holiday gift she definitely doesn't want: enforced time off work to recuperate. Then an invitation arrives from her favorite client, Dorothy, to stay at her guest cottage in the Cotswolds. From the thatched roof to the cozy open fireplace, Holly Cottage is a picture-perfect haven? Can it provide the fresh start Imogen so desperately needs?" --Amazon.com
Author: Hahn, Taylor, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F HAHN Format: Books Summary: "For wedding singer Mel Hart, the holidays have always retained a certain magic. Her mother, Connie, always managed to pull off spectacular Santa hijinx that convinced Mel to keep believing in Santa way longer than other kids. Those moments meant everything to Mel because the rest of the year, life was unpredictable because of her mother's alcohol use. But two weeks before Christmas, Mel gets a call from the hospital: her mother has died. Then a woman shows up on Mel's doorstep, claiming to be Connie's estranged best friend, promising to tell Mel a different narrative - one in which Connie was almost a famous country music star, if only a man hadn't gotten in the way. Instead of spending Christmas alone in her dead mother's lonely house, Mel agrees to stay with Barb for the holidays, finding herself in the middle of Barb's lovely but complicated family, uncovering secrets from the present and the past, while fighting an attraction to Barb's handsome but in-the-middle-of-a-divorce son. As the countdown to Christmas Eve ensues, Mel reckons with how little she knew about her mother's past while re-examining her own future. A Home for the Holidays is a moving exploration of complicated grief, mother-daughter relationships, loving someone with addiction, and the redemptive power of opening one's heart to love in all its forms"--
Author: King, Crystal, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F KING Format: Books Summary: Julia Lombardi agrees to accompany artist Salvador Dalí to the Sacro Bosco, Italy's "Garden of Monsters," in Bomarzo. There, she is his muse, posing as the goddess Persephone for him. The garden is unsettling and as Dalí becomes more and more fanatic, Julia becomes drawn to their host, Ignazio, whom she finds both alluring and terrifying. Julia is soon on the verge of unraveling, and Dalí's persistence is so intense that she begins to wonder if she really is becoming Persephone, queen of the Underworld. "Julia Lombardi is a mystery even to herself. The beautiful model can?t remember where she?s from, where she?s been or how she came to live in Rome. When she receives an offer to accompany celebrated eccentric artist Salvadore Dali to the Sarco Bosco--Italy's Garden of Monsters-- as his muse, she's strangely compelled to accect. It could be a chance to unlock the truth about her past... Shrouded in shadow, the garden ful of giant statues that sometimes seem alive is far from welcoming. Still, from the moment of their arrival at the palazzo, Julia is inexplicably drawn to their darkly enigmatic host, Ignazio. He's alluring yet terrfying--and he seems to know her..."--
Author: Pitts, Leonard, Jr., author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F PITTS Format: Books Summary: "From Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Leonard Pitts, Jr. comes a historical page-turner about a family forced to grapple with its past amid a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement. In March 1965, young Adam, raised in Harlem by his white father, George, and Black mother, Thelma, returns to his parents' home state of Alabama to join in the voting rights campaign, only to be brutalized in the Bloody Sunday melee. He is still recovering when he is struck a heavy emotional blow, learning of a grim family secret that sends him spiraling further into danger, and drawing Thelma back to the South she both hates and fears. Meanwhile, Thelma's brother Luther is also spiraling, but in a different way. Forty-two years after his parents were lynched before his eyes, Luther has just made a shocking discovery. He's found the murderer, Floyd Bitters, helpless and enfeebled in a rest home -- literally at Luther's mercy. And Luther, who has never overcome this life-defining trauma, grapples with the awful question of what justice now demands. Set against a backdrop of racial conflict and transformation, 54 Miles explores what happens when cycles of trauma echo through generations, and what erupts when people are pushed to their breaking point"--
Author: Sellers, Bakari, 1984- author. Published: 2024 Call Number: 305.896 Format: Books Summary: In late May in 2020, while discussing the murder of George Floyd on CNN, Bakari Sellers spoke from the heart sharing devastating insight that touched millions around the world: "It's just so much pain. You get so tired. We have black children. I have a 15-year-old daughter. I mean, what do I tell her? I'm raising a son. I have no idea what to tell him. It's just--it's hard being black in this country when your life is not valued and people are worried about the protesters and the looters. And it's just people who are frustrated for far too long and not have their voices heard." In this powerful and persuasive book, Sellers expands on the issues he addressed in his New York Times bestseller My Vanishing Country, examining national politics and policies that deeply impact not only Black people in his home state of South Carolina but the lives of millions of African Americans in communities across the nation. Four years later, Sellers has an answer to the question he raised on CNN, offering much-needed prescriptions to help all Black American lives. Sellers explores inequities in healthcare, education, early childhood education, and policing, drawing on interviews with numerous thought leaders such as pioneering voting rights and poverty activist the Rev. William Barber, and Ben Crump, the civil rights legend who successfully uses the law to achieve justice for people of color in racially charged cases. He also shares his thoughts on conservative media and the forces and dark money behind firebrands such as Tucker Carlson. This thoughtful and practical work is a timely meditation on the state of our world today and how we can all play a part in making it better for tomorrow. --
Author: Gray, Shelley Shepard, author. Published: 2024 2022 Call Number: LP F GRAY Format: Large print Summary: "Wesley is so busy running his family's Amish market at the holidays, he barely has time for Liesl, the young woman he's been courting for years. When she suggests her aunt Jenny could help Wesley out, he agrees to the plan. Jenny, still healing after a painful breakup, welcomes the distraction of working at the market. She soon realizes Wesley is everything she ever dreamed a man could be. But how can Jenny even think about romance with the man Liesl expects to marry?"--
Author: Dave, Laura, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F DAVE Format: Books Summary: "When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was. From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick The Last Thing He Told Me comes a riveting mystery wrapped in an epic love story"-- "Liam Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was an exacting, self-made hotel magnate fleeing his past. To his three ex-wives, he was a loving albeit distant family man who kept his finances flush and his families carefully separated. To Nora, he was a father who often loved her from afar--notably a cliffside cottage perched on the California coast from which he fell to his death. The authorities rule the death accidental, but Nora and her estranged brother Sam have other ideas. As Nora and Sam form an uneasy alliance to unravel the mystery, they start putting together the pieces of their father's past--and uncover a family secret that changes everything"--
Author: Sturges, Lilah, author. Garing, El, illustrator. Otsmane-Elhaou, Hassan, lettering. Betancourt, Jimmy, lettering. Published: 2024 Call Number: GN STURGES Format: Books Summary: After her transition, Joy Ravenna has settled into a comfortable life with her girlfriend Cat and works as a forensic parapsychologist. Her goal: make the world believe that ghosts are real and are vital to solving crimes. When the heir to the Haskell Firearms business empire Liz Haskell is mysteriously murdered at her home, Joy is called in to investigate.--
Author: Urana, Kei, author. Ward, Jennifer (Jennifer J.), translator. Stewart, Jamil, letterer. Last, Cayley, editor. Published: 2024 Call Number: Y GN URANA V.2 Format: Books Summary: "Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, where the poor scrape by under the shadow of the rich who live a sumptuous life, simply casting their garbage off the side, into the abyss. Then one day, he's falsely accused of murder, and his wrongful conviction leads to an unimaginable punishment-exile off the edge, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, the cast-off waste of humanity has bred vicious monsters, and if Rudo wants to have any hope of discovering the truth and seeking vengeance, he will have to master a new power and join a group known as 'The Cleaners' who battle the hulking trash beasts of the pit!"--Volume 1 back cover.
Author: Walker, Martin, 1947 January 23- author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F WALKER Format: Books Summary: "Another entertaining and enlightening entry in the Bruno, Chief of Police series, featuring an archaeological dig in the French countryside that unearths World War II-era mysteries-all while Bruno dishes up more culinary magic When Abby, an American archaeologist, arrives in St. Denis on the heels of her divorce, she hopes to make a new life for herself as a specialist guide for visiting tourists. So when a local British couple discover a grave from World War II on their property, Abby is able to put her training to good use. As it turns out, in the grave are the remains of two German women and an Italian submarine officer who had a big secret to hide. The women are suspected of having had links to the German garrison in Bordeaux during the war. It's up to Bruno, just recovered from a gunshot wound earlier in the year, to unravel the mystery-and its contemporary relevance. His task is made more difficult by the horrible heat-dome summer, which is raising the temperature for miles around, as unprecedented amounts of rain drench the Massif Central and threaten increasingly dramatic floods. As Bruno drills to the heart of the case, matters get even more complicated when both Abby's financially distressed ex-husband and a mysterious dashing Italian naval officer arrive, with very different ideas in mind. Once again, Bruno is left to serve the guilty their just rewards, and his friends, some sumptuous Perigordian cuisine"--
Author: Kelley, Pamela M., author. Published: 2024 Call Number: LP F KELLEY Format: Large print Summary: "Brooklyn based Hannah is a bestselling author struggling to write her second book after personal losses. Her older sister, Sara, still lives in Chatham, Cape Cod, where they grew up, and is married with four children. Once a dedicated librarian, Sara dreams of reviving her love affair with literature, but instead, she is stuck with too many family responsibilities and a fizzling marriage. When Hannah gets the chance to retreat to her aunt's oceanfront house in Chatham for the summer, it seems like just the thing to get her creative juices flowing. And she'll be able to spend more time with Sara, who is eager to find her way back into the workforce, to do something rewarding and book-related. The pair will spend the summer making friends, rekindling romance, especially Spencer, an old acquaintance from high school-turned very hot grump, and opening themselves up to the magic of books and the beach"--
Author: White, Sophie (Journalist), author. Erewhon (Firm : New York (N.Y.)) Published: 2024 2022 Call Number: F WHITE Format: Books Summary: "My Mother. At night my mother creaks, the house creaks along with her. Sometimes in the morning we find her in places. We never see her move. We just come upon her. Aoileann is cursed. She has no friends, never gone to school. She has never left the windswept craggy isle off the coast of Ireland. Her mother is cursed: a silent wreck Aoileann calls the "bed-thing"."--
Author: Carlyle, Rose, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F CARLYLE Format: Books Summary: With a child on the way, Eve Sylvester is hired by wealthy couple Julia and Christopher Hygate as a nanny. But the job seems too good to be true. Arriving with no money or experience, why would they hire her, and why must she stay out of sight? Julia and Christopher Hygate have the picture-perfect life: gobs of money thanks to their lucrative shipping enterprise and an estate on a secluded island. When they meet Eve Sylvester, they know she is the exact person they should hire to be their child's nany. Eve doesn't have any living relatives, she's lost touch with her friends, and her partner is out of the picture. Best of all, she's expecting a baby. Eve thinks she's landed the greatest gig--previously desperate and penniless, now she'll live like a queen and have a promising future for her daughter. But the job seems too good to be true. Why would the Hygates hire Eve if she has no prior nannying experience? Why must Eve stay out of sight? And what's with the mysterious yachts coming in and out of the Hygates' private marina?"--
Author: Mallery, Susan, author. Published: 2024 Call Number: F MALLERY Format: Books Summary: At first, Julie Parker is happy that her children do not plan to visit for Christmas, because she has been hiding her younger beau from them, but when they instead want to spend the holiday at the family cabin and the guest list grows beyond Julie's expectations, she discovers that more really is merrier. "Julie Parker's kids are her greatest gift. Still, she's not exactly heartbroken when they ask to skip a big Christmas. Her son, Nick, is taking a belated honwymoon with his bride Blair, while her daughter, Dana, will purge evry reminder of the guy who dumped her. Again. Julie feels practically giddy for one-on-one holiday time with Heath, the (much) younger man she's secretly dating. But her plans go from cozy to chaotic when Nick and Dana plead for Christmas at the family cabin in memory of their late father, Julie's ex. She can't refuse, even though she dreads their reaction to her new man when they realize she'd been hiding him for months. As the guest list continues to grow in surprising ways, from Blair's estranged mom to Heath's precocious children, Julie's secret is one of the many to be unwrapped..."--
